Excerpted from a Forbes article by Alonzo Martinez As we dash into the lucrative holiday shopping season, employers are scrambling to hire temporary workers to extend their ranks. And, by all accounts, the season is expected to be a busy one as...
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Do you “Clear your Volunteer?” Here at GroupOne Background Screening, we’ve been checking on volunteers of our clients for over 20 years. Volunteers are screened for the same reason employers conduct background checks – to verify identity and...
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Excerpted from JDSUPRA By Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A Most employers run background checks on prospective employees when hiring. Some employers have policies in place that allow them to conduct background checks on current employees. Below are...
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Do you “Clear your Volunteer?” Here at GroupOne Background Screening, we’ve been checking on volunteers of our clients for over 20 years. Volunteers are screened for the same reason employers conduct background checks – to verify identity and...
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With such high-profile incidents as an Uber Eats driver in Atlanta who allegedly shot and killed a customer in February, employers have increasingly been inspired to root out problematic employees. And for good reason! Today, studies show 33% of...
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Here at GroupOne Background Screening, we receive daily questions on a number of issues, but one of the most common is if a background check will reveal a Chapter 7 bankruptcy? If so, from how long ago? The simple answer is, yes bankruptcies can...
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Excerpted from Law.com By Greg Land Two pending class action lawsuits accusing Seattle-based coffee chain Starbucks of violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act by using flawed background reports to reject job applicants are being combined in the...
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Excerpted from a Sheppard Mullin blog by Justine M. Phillips and Brooke S. Purcell Albert Einstein believed “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” The courts seem to agree. In Gilberg v. Cal. Check Cashing Stores...
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Excerpted from a National Law Review story On January 29, a unanimous three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit ruled that an employer violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) by providing a background check disclosure form that included...
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Does your company complete a background check only when you hire a new employee? Should you consider continuous screening of your employees during the year? Good questions all, and GroupOne Background Screening is here to assist. Performing...
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Excerpted from an HR Dive blog by Jennifer Carsen A California district court has certified a class of approximately 5 million people who once applied to Walmart in a suit alleging background check violations (Pitre v. Walmart Stores, Inc., No...
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Excerpted from an HR Dive blog by Jennifer Carsen Delta Air Lines has agreed to pay $2.3 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging it failed to provide approximately 44,000 applicants with a stand-alone background check disclosure, in...
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